Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Readers expect-and editors eagerly seek to provide-a full report on what is new and different from last week, yesterday, ten minutes ago. So journalism often shows "the world with all the banality, the ordinary, the uncontroversial and the unchanging left out." In a period of war, domestic turmoil and change, "good news" is even more easily submerged...
...redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding over the proceedings. But when the nation itself is in a period of profound social turmoil--as in the years of our impeached but unconvicted president, Andrew Johnson, and now--any challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment to be a last resort, but just as clearly did they distinguish between president and presidency, and between...
...Benjamin A. Gilman is a young, popular freshman congressman from New York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a distance. Together they have established a conservative bastion to prevent its spread north. In 1970 the district elected a leftwing Democrat, John G. Dow '27, only because his Republican opponent was indicted for income tax evasion towards the end of the campaign. But in 1972, Gilman took advantage of Nixon...
...nation is at a crossroads," Gilman said. "These are times of agitation and turmoil in a troubled capital. All of us are on trial individually, and the decisions we make today will go down in history...
...have come through times of turmoil before," he said. "We haven't lost faith in our nation or our future. We still hold dear the basic principles of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. And despite our troubles, we have inherited the greatest most durable, and most nearly perfect form of government in the world...